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I am recording an audiobook

For ACX? First One? We have some tools to help you along if you are.

Koz

The Audacity installer makes its own.

When you "go" there, does it look anything like this?
Koz

in whatever bit rate you need depending on how you are delivering them. Which brings us to asking you who your audience is. Who is it? It's super important to know if you are going to expect them to edit your work. That's very different from sliding a track into a music player for a day at the beac...

"folder cannot be found" They don't volunteer the location of the folder. It's pretty easy to create problems if you mess in there too much. Click somewhere in the blank desktop. Go (top of the desktop) > Go To Folder > Screen Shot 2017-12-07 at 19.45.04.png You gotta have the squiggle in...

I always miss one. You may meed to use Analyze > Add/Remove Plugins.

Koz

I need to use the ACX Check Plug-in to check my levels. No. You can do it the older, longer, painful way. ACX-Check is a shortcut. It should look something like this. Screen Shot 2017-12-07 at 18.07.23.png Yes. it's text. It's XML programming language. ;nyquist plug-in ;version 3 ;type analyze ;nam...

You can't rename Project files or folders outside of Audacity. The show name is burned into the AUP file. Control-Click the AUP file > Open With > TextEdit. Look down through all the XML programming to where it says projname=" . That's the show name you made when the show was saved. Both the AU...

One item many people walk around is backups. Always be able to point to two separate storage devices containing your work. The original tapes can be one of those. So don't automatically throw the tapes in the bin. WAV (Microsoft) at CD quality (44100, 16-bit, Stereo) is a good storage format. It's u...

It seems liker a grand interface, but still, if you installed software, it has to say Windows 10 Compatible. Older software products may not work right. Win10 was the dividing line between older drivers and new. What did the software say it did? The web pages seem to suggest the interface would work...

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=67836#p67836 I'm not sure reading Bruno's thread would help, but I know we went through a lot of sound quality issues with him. Simple recording tasks are not necessarily easy. The current recordholder is Ian who was trying to present an audiobook from h...